Fine Arts

The performance schedule for "Copacabana," the musical created by Barry Manilow, has been changed. It's now set to play at the Lyric Opera House tonight through Sunday, with a matinee Saturday and Sunday. Tickets for yesterday's performance will be accepted tonight. Tickets are $15-$55. Call 410-481-7328.

Date: Aug. 2 Her story: Catherine "Cat" Yard, 25, grew up in Ewing, N.J. She is an artist and regularly models for figure drawing and painting classes at Maryland Institute College of Art , the Johns Hopkins University, Towson University and the Mitchell School of Fine Arts in Baltimore. She and her husband are ensemble cast members performing with the Baltimore Rock Opera Society in "The Electric Pharaoh," which opens Oct. 17. Her parents, Kathleen and Duane Yard, live in Ewing.

The state Board of Public Works has approved an $8.2 million contract to build a new fine arts building at Anne Arundel Community College.CAM Construction Co. Inc. will begin preparing West Campus for the project, which will be funded by more than $3.5 million from the state and $4.7 million from the county."

Douglas R. Legenhausen, a jewelry designer and master craftsman who worked in iron, gold and silver, died Sept. 20 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson of complications from back surgery. He was 69. The son of Chester Legenhausen, a house painter, and June Legenhausen, a homemaker, Douglas Raymond Legenhausen was born in Queens, N.Y., and was raised in Ossining, N.Y., and Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. After graduating in 1964 from Mahopac High School in Mahopac, N.Y., he earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts in 1969 from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a master's degree in 1972 in fine arts from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Howard Community College, 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway in Columbia, will celebrate "Student Fine Arts Month" in May with music, art and dance events. Sponsored by the school's arts and humanities division, the free events will include: An art exhibit and reception from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. May 3 in HCC's Art Gallery. A student art exhibit, it will remain on display until May 17. The HCC Concert Series, featuring the HCC Singers, HCC Women's Ensemble and outstanding music students. The concert will be presented at 7:30 p.m. May 7 in the school's Smith Theatre.

Clementine L. Peterson, a trustee of Western Maryland College, has given the college $1 million to renovate and restore the college's Fine Arts Building.It is the single largest gift in the school's history, school officials said.The building, constructed in 1908, will be renamed the Clementine and Duane L. Peterson Hall, for Mrs. Peterson and her late husband, a co-founder of the Baltimore-based national business service firm of Peterson, Howell & Heather, now known as PHH.Plans call for making the building the centerpiece of a new arts complex.

Joseph H. Kohl, a news and fine arts photographer who documented the leaders of Baltimore's business community as well as personalities on The Block, died Tuesday of leukemia at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center & Hospital. He was 44 and lived in Glen Burnie. The staff photographer for the Baltimore Business Journal, and formerly at other newspapers in the area, Mr. Kohl also exhibited his pictures in local coffeehouses and galleries. "He had a feel for the underside of Baltimore life," said Michael P. Giuliano, a former colleague at the old Baltimore News American.

A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Stephens Hall, Towson State University, 8000 York Road, for Alexander E. Sidorowicz, dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication since 1991.Dr. Sidorowicz was killed Saturday in an automobile accident near Queenstown. He was 49 and a resident of Harper House in the Village of Cross Keys.As dean, he oversaw the theater, dance, art, music and speech and mass communication departments, an enrollment of nearly 1,900, a full-time faculty of 79 and 100 part-time teachers.

Is there anything new under the sun? And if so, what difference does it make? Postmodern artists would answer the first question with a resounding "no." In recent columns and reviews, I've explored some of the views of these artists, who reject the idea of originality. They also argue that an artwork has no meaning outside the context of political, historic and social networks in which it is placed. I owe much of my understanding of these issues to Joel Eisinger, who teaches in the art history department at the University of Minnesota at Morris, and is the author of "Trace and Transformation: American Criticism of Photography in the Modernist Period."

Soon, the ballerinas will prance and the musicians will perform in a building all their own at Anne Arundel Community College.The school's board of trustees voted unanimously Friday to award CAM Construction Co. Inc. the contract to build a fine arts building on West Campus.The Timonium-based company's $8.2 million bid was the lowest of six bids."We really never had a fine arts building before," said Edgar E. Mallick Jr., vice president for administration, planning and college relations."This building is going to take us into the 21st century," he said.

There's a scene in the first episode of the new web series "BFA" that quickly tells you this isn't another navel-gazer about life as a 20-something in New York or Los Angeles. Our protagonists, a group of Baltimore actors who make up the fictional Stick People Theatre Company, have just put on an edgy performance in their partially renovated rowhouse. The audience - five lonely souls - is told afterward by emcee Sarah Pearl (played by 23-year-old Katie Hileman) that cupcakes and beer are available as refreshments.

One of the most popular electives at my law school is Interviewing, Negotiations, and Counseling (INC). Students learn the basics of interviewing parties, negotiating agreements and advising clients on their best options. It also has no final exam. I always wanted to take this course but something always got in the way. Either it wasn't offered or I had other requisites taking my time. So, I'm taking the alternative route to INC: planning a wedding. Sure, it's not in the academic context, but its lessons are just as useful.

As a young girl, Jean Brinton Jaecks would sit around her family's dinner table in Severn and listen to her parents talk about nature, light and color. Her mother, Mary, was a painter; her father, Earl, created wood sculptures as a break from his job as a designer at Westinghouse. "Back in the 1960s, they began an organic garden," Jaecks recalls. "In 1961, that was unheard of. The neighbors made fun of them. " Love of the outdoors and the arts were reinforced during summer vacations, when the family would drive to Cape Ann and Rockport in Maine.

Sunday, Oct. 13 Festival The first Hispanic Festival of the Center of Help/Centro de Ayuda will be held from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at 273 Hilltop Lane in Annapolis. Event features music, entertainment, activities for children, food trucks and informational tables from community organizations. Information: 410-295-3434 or go to centrodeayuda.org. Women's event Camp Letts' 18th annual Women's Wellness Weekend concludes today. Theme is Spirit, Mind & Body and includes outdoor activities, stress reduction, healthy living and relaxation.

Baltimore City's Cylburn Arboretum is an artist's paradise, which is why painter Patricia Bennett has been drawn to the 207-acre grounds of trees and gardens since 2005. But unlike other artists who dot the landscape of the longtime city park, Bennett, of Mount Washington, now has an official reason to be there. Since January, the 36-year-old attorney's wife and busy mother of two young children has been working as Cylburn Arboretum's first-ever artist-in-residence, a program that city officials say is designed to formalize the natural connection between artists and the arboretum.

The Baltimore Summer Antiques Show returns to the convention center Aug. 22 for its 33rd season, and this year there are a couple of new twists. In addition to more than 575 international art and antique dealers and more than 200,000 items, the event will introduce Art Baltimore 2013, a show-within-a-show highlighting international fine-art galleries in the show, including Robert M. Quilter Fine Arts of Baltimore. This year there is a free mobile app, available for iPhones, to help visitors navigate the show floor — so large that a second entrance has been added.

A neoclassical gem on the campus of Western Maryland College soon will be refurbished as a symbol of the college's rededication to teaching fine arts.By next summer, the 1908 Fine Arts Building will be restored and renovated as the centerpiece of an arts complex on the east side of the 160-acre campus in Westminster.The three-level building is one of the last designed by Baltimore architect Jackson C. Gott. Built for $26,500, it has been likened in appearance to the Petit Trianon at Versailles, a 1763 residence used by Marie Antoinette and other members of French royalty )

It was Morgan's night to shine. Two pairs of searchlights scanned the sky beckoning guests in tuxedos and sequined gowns as Morgan State University literally rolled out the red carpet last night for the dedication of the school's new $40 million Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center. World-renowned soprano Jessye Norman performed before a sellout crowd of 2,000 people, and former President Bill Clinton offered kind words about the arts center and the college, as did U.S. Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes and Mayor Martin O'Malley.

Lise Lorentzen, of Bel Air, won a white ribbon in the "National Exhibition of Folk Art in the Norwegian Tradition" at Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum. The exhibition is Vesterheim's major summer show and was held June 11 to July 27. The awards were announced in conjunction with Decorah's Nordic Fest celebration July 25 to 27. Lorentzen won the white ribbon in rosemaling for a lap desk painted in the Hallingdal-style. Most rosemalers paint in a style specific to one of the different areas of Norway, and each style has very distinct characteristics.

Gabriela Bulisova, a Maryland Institute College of Art graduate whose photographs depict the return to freedom of a woman imprisoned half her life for a double murder, is the winner of this year's $25,000 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts announced Bulisova, of Alexandria, Va., as the winner at a ceremony at the Walters Art Museum on Saturday night. Three jurors chose her work from that of a group of six finalists, four of whom mainly focused on photography for their entries.